By Canadian Press

CP NewsAlert: Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet terminates consumer carbon price

Mar 14, 2025 | 2:28 PM

OTTAWA — The federal cabinet has agreed to immediately end the consumer carbon price, and made the change official at the first cabinet meeting under Prime Minister Mark Carney this afternoon.

Carney says people who have been getting a rebate on the carbon price will get one final payment for the next quarter in April.

More coming.

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